Art Director, Wegmans

Job Description: Are you a creative powerhouse who loves strategic thinking?
If given the opportunity, would leading the branding of a Top 100 Company thrill you?
If you have answered yes, then you might like to work with us...because this is who we are.
We are looking for talent to develop, produce, and direct high quality, fresh, and unique creative work, upholding brand identity and personality to achieve results on time and on strategy.
We are a dynamic creative team of art directors, designers, photographers, and writers.
We create, build, and solve. We are committed to excellence. We thrive under pressure.
We live for results. We have fun getting the job done.
We think broad. Our creative is diverse.
We design it all; magazines, packaging, ads, signage, digital. You name it, we do it.

Job Requirements:

• Participate in and/or lead strategic brainstorming sessions by asking solid strategic questions and offering innovative ideas to help develop creative concepts
• Offer unique creative solutions as well as messaging on the fly that accomplishes defined strategy
• Develop, utilize, and maintain well-defined processes to measure and report on consistency, quality and operational efficiency across all projects
• Provide strategic focus and guidelines for the look and feel of all creative including words, illustration and photography
• Create and maintain an environment where our brand messaging and identity, and business objectives are clearly and readily understood and consistently adhered to
• Persuasively and clearly present design concepts against strategies outlined to Creative Leadership and Marketing
• Collaborate with all levels of the project, including Marketing, Production, and Creative on planning and coordination to ensure work is aligned with project objectives and deadlines are achievable

Position: Art Director

Type of Job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwIul9u0eaU&feature=youtu.be

City: Rochester

Region: New York

Duration: Full-Time

About Our Company: Wegmans Food Markets is a major regional supermarket chain, and one of the largest private companies in the U.S. Headquartered in Rochester, New York, Wegmans Food Markets is family-owned company, founded in 1916 by the Wegman family and employs over 47,000 people.

Company: Wegmans

How to Apply: https://goo.gl/1YDZmy

Design Director, The Daily Front Row

Job Description: The Daily Front Row is seeking a freelance Design Director. You will be responsible for 19 issues a year (6 daily issues during each season of NYFW, 1 Los Angeles issue, and 6 issues of The Daily Summer, our glossy Hamptons-centric summer publication.) 

You will be working with a freelance art dept of 1-2 other designers during shipping, and a photo editor. 

Other responsibilities include designing proposals and event collateral for Daily events, along with some social media.

Job Requirements: You should be able to work quickly as the pace is fast, have strong organizational skills, and an eye for fashion. Ideally someone with previous fashion experience who is familiar with the industry and its players. Enthusiasm and a sense of humor also a big plus. 

We are a small, fun group and highly collaborative.

Position: Design Director

Type of Job: Design

City: New York

Region: New York

Duration: Freelance

About Our Company: Printed publication & online fashion news source for the latest fashion industry news, fashion trends, and fashion designers.

Company: The Daily Front Row

Contact Name: Brandusa Niro

Contact Email: jobs@dailyfrontrow.com

How to Apply: Please submit your resume and link to online portfolio.

Senior Designer, Scholastic

Job Description: A Senior Designer is needed to fill a role in Scholastic National Partnerships, a marketing agency within Scholastic that helps government, non-profit and corporate partners tap into the power of Scholastic's education expertise through programs and content for children, parents, and educators that shape learning today. A day's typical activities include: 

• Creating attractive and effective designs for all media, i.e.: Classroom materials, custom magazines and books, print ads, websites, online games, videos, digital ads, and emails.
• Communicating with senior team members to receive feedback
• Supporting the team throughout the execution of projects

Learn more about our work at http://www.scholastic.com/nationalpartnerships/.
Rate is $40-$50/hour depending on experience.

Job Requirements:
The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:

• 3–8 years of creative agency or magazine experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work on several different projects at a time and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• The ability to see projects through from inception to production
• Consistency regardless of project size
• Good organizational skills that support the rest of the team
• The willingness to listen to feedback
• A "let's do this" kind of attitude

Position: Senior Designer

Type of Job: Digital and Print Design

City: New York

Region: New York

Duration: Full-Time Freelance

Benefits: Benefits such as health care, paid sick days, 401K and commuter tax benefits are offered through the staffing agency.

About Our Company: Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, a leading provider of core literacy curriculum and professional services, and a producer of educational and entertaining children's media. The Company creates quality books and ebooks, print and technology-based learning programs for pre-K to grade 12, classroom magazines and other products and services that support children's learning both in school and at home. With operations in 14 international offices and exports to 165 countries, Scholastic makes quality, affordable books available to all children around the world through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom collections, school and public libraries, retail and online. True to its mission of 97 years to encourage the personal and intellectual growth of all children beginning with literacy, the Company has earned a reputation as a trusted partner to educators and families. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.

Company: Scholastic

Contact Name: Stephen Christensen

Contact Email: schristensen@scholastic.com

How to Apply: Email schristensen@scholastic.com with your resume and a link to your portfolio or PDFs of your work.

Editorial Designer, DFWChild

Job Description: DFWChild seeks a full-time in-house editorial designer to join our creative team. This designer will work alongside and under the direction of the Creative Director. The designer will be responsible for much of the layout of four monthly publications (CollinChild, DallasChild, FortWorthChild, and NorthTexasChild), one bi-monthly publication (Thrive), one biannual publication (Baby) and special supplements (mailers for Guide to Education, The Well Guide, etc). The editorial designer will also be responsible for occasional marketing or advertising collateral and event signage, as well as some web design and email marketing.

Job Requirements:

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Concept and design layouts for FOB and BOB sections of the magazine
• Assign out spot illustrations
• Create images for the website and social platforms
• Help concept and design occasional marketing and social imagery/designs
• Other duties as assigned

KEYS TO SUCCESS

• Passion for print magazines
• Interest in digital media sites is a plus: Layout, hierarchy, design, art
• Strong understanding of editorial print design, visual hierarchy, the creative process editorial problem solving
• Strong typographic skills
• Photo editing skills
• Highly organized and methodical
• Strong attention to detail 
• Deadline-driven; comfortable with working at a fast pace 

QUALIFICATIONS

• Highly experienced in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
• B.A. in graphic design, communications design or related field
• 3+ years experience in editorial design

Position: Editorial Designer

Type of Job: Print design, with some digital

City: Dallas

Region: Texas

Duration: Full-Time

Benefits: Health, dental and vision insurance; paid vacation days; SIMPLE IRA with company contribution

About Our Company: DFWChild is the premier authority for women with children in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. We educate, inform, and advocate for healthy living, social responsibility, education, the arts and the wellbeing of families in our local communities and creating and curating content in print, web, email, social media and live events.

Company: DFWChild magazines

Contact Name: Lauren Niebes

Contact Email: lauren@dfwchild.com

How to Apply: Please email your resume, portfolio link and a brief introduction of yourself, connecting your experience directly to the responsibilities and qualifications require for this position. When emailing us, please use the subject line: Editorial Designer/SPD

Graphic Designer / Web Developer, The Pegasus Review

Design a Medical Literary Journal and Change American Medicine

Job Description: The Pegasus Review is a new medical literary journal out of Stanford University. We plan to launch this summer, first online and then in print. 

As we plan our launch, we are seeking a graphic designer and web developer to help build our platform from the ground up. Our publication’s visual aesthetic should reflect its editorial voice. As such, our ideal designer is someone who shares our passion for crafting beautiful stories about medical culture, medical training, and the experience of illness and healing. That said, we prize professionalism and skill above all else, and welcome any applicant who can help us translate our vision to print and the web.

The compensation for this job is a $6000 for the initial platform build, and then $1500/year for ongoing consultation services. 

Job Requirements:

THE JOB ENTAILS:

• Helping to shape our visual aesthetic. (We have strong opinions, and we welcome a designer who does too.)
• Building a beautiful online literary publication, with a gripping front page, fluid story layouts, thoughtful lead pages for individual sections (e.g., fiction, poetry, opinion, etc), and simple tools for navigating between pages
• Seamlessly integrating this web publication with a print edition
• Integrating our literary art with visual art (curated by our art director)
• Consulting on promotional material (e.g., flyers, splashpages)
• Teaching our staff to manage the site’s content, so that we can upload new content for subsequent editions
• Performing limited troubleshooting during these bi-annual/quarterly uploads
• Talking us through back-end design issues like adware interoperability and SEO friendliness.

Position: Graphic Designer/Web Developer

Type of Job: Print and Web Design

City: Menlo Park

Region: California

Duration: Freelance

About Our Company: The Pegasus Review is a new medical literary journal out of Stanford University. Our title references The Paris Review, the famous literary journal, and the Pegasus Physician-Authors, a group of some 100 writers who have conducted readings at Stanford for the last 10 years. We publish fiction, poetry, essays, and narrative nonfiction on sickness, healing, medical training, and medical culture. Our editorial staff consists mainly of Pegasus members, and our advisory board includes Michael Berkwits (deputy editor at JAMA) and Abraham Verghese (best-selling novelist).

Company: The Pegasus Review, Stanford University

Contact Name: Matthew Stevenson

Contact Email: thepegasusreview@gmail.com

How to Apply: If you are interested, submit a resume and 1-3 samples of your work to ThePegasusReview@gmail.com. Please include a few sentences outlining your experience and your interest in our project. From there, we can talk in greater detail about the Pegasus Review’s aesthetic and literary goals, and the next steps for our collaboration.

Designer - Creative and Publications, National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project

Job Description: 

THE POSITION:

• Design and layout of print materials – pre-press preparation and web publishing
• Use of Adobe Creative Suite and other package programs for layout of print materials
• Prepare print documents ranging from one-page informational brochures to 90+ page curriculum guides
• Design and management of curriculum portfolio online
• Continuous design and refresh of curriculum materials
• Provide assistance to staff in the preparation of presentations and training materials
• Design of technical infographics and data-driven charts for inclusion in curriculum materials
• Design of creative graphics for the usability/appeal of curriculum materials
• Final pre-press packaging and communication with vendors for publication and digital delivery
• 40 hours per week
• Assist in administering web content
• Administer a large photo and graphics library

Job Requirements:

THE RIGHT CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• Superior knowledge of publication and graphic design 
• Superior knowledge and demonstrated use of Adobe Creative Suite products
• Superior knowledge of web publication technologies and social media
• Experience editing in a Wordpress web environment
• Superior Graphic editing skills
• Basic HTML and CSS knowledge a must
• E-publication experience a plus 
• Copy editing and grammar skills a real plus
• Creativity and the ability to conceptualize graphics to teach concepts
• Photography and Video Skills a plus
• Familiarity with Constant Contact a plus
• Familiarity with Shopify a plus
• Interest in the non-profit sector
• Technical writing experience
• Technical drawing expertise
• Willingness to assist all programming aspects of the organization
• Interest in energy and environmental technologies and issues
• Strong Interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team in a collaborative environment
• Ability to focus, work within deadlines and manage time effectively
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities at once
• Willingness to accept challenges and to complete tasks on deadline

SKILLS REQUIRED: B.A, B.S, A.A in graphic and/or multimedia design or equivalent; 1-3 years experience; Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud software (especially InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop); Proficient in Microsoft Office software; Working knowledge of CSS and HTML; Knowledgeable in web design and editing software including, Smugmug, WordPress and social media.

Position: Designer

Type of Job: Design, Illustration, Digital

City: Manassas

Region: Northern Virginia

Duration: Full-Time

About Our Company: The NEED Project, a 501c3 organization, based in Manassas, Virginia, develops and delivers balanced, educational standards based classroom (K-12) energy curriculum and teacher training. NEED programs focus on the science of energy, energy sources, electricity, transportation, and energy efficiency and conservation. NEED is an education organization with a sole focus on education, not advocacy. Serving over 65,000 classrooms annually, with over 600 teacher workshops, NEED seeks to provide timely, accurate energy information to teachers and energy professionals nationwide. NEED curriculum is developed and designed in a collaborative process with the expertise and support of energy professionals and educators. It is an energetic, growing organization that requires team members willing to participate in all aspects of its programs. 

Company: National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project

Contact Name: Mary Spruill

Contact Email: jobs@need.org

How to Apply: Please submit resume with link to portfolio or PDF of 6-8 samples. Samples should include: publications, diagrams, and creative design, and details as to the role the candidate played in the production of the publication and/or website. Send all materials to jobs@need.org.